Everything wasn’t better in the past, though some things lasted longer. For example, car models: It was not uncommon for generations of skilled workers to screw together almost identical sheet metal for decades. Nearly over: Today, manufacturers can no longer simply continue to build a car like the Citroën 2CV (41 years) or the VW Beetle (65 years).
The environment and safety requirements change too quickly, as do customers’ demands. Nevertheless, they still exist: cars that continue to be built somewhere in the world even after decades. And in one case, we didn’t have to travel far for our nostalgia trip around the world: one of the endurance burners comes from Western Europe.
In the last few years, we have lost a few endurance burners. For the first time in 40 years, Mercedes unveiled a new G Class model in 2018, while Suzuki brought a new Jimny after 20 years. And Land Rover is dropping the Defender, and Lada is developing a successor to the Niva/4×4 (since 1976). Others models are still fresh off the production line. In the following, we will take a look at some of the oldest cars which are still being produced somewhere in the world!
The Daewoo Matiz was launched in Europe and Asia in 1998 and remained on the market until 2005. The technology is primarily taken over from Suzuki Alto. While production ended in China in 2015 as the Baojun Lechi, it is still running in Uzbekistan, where the model is still produced by UzDaewoo at a base price of 314,000 rubles (3,426 euros).
Power is provided by a 1.0-liter three-cylinder gasoline engine with 51 hp; a four-cylinder with 63 hp is also available. The simple subcompact weighs only 770 kilograms. Nevertheless, the air conditioning, radio, power steering and power windows provide some comfort.
